Dying for Pie

Template:Episode "Dying for Pie" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season two.

Brief summary: Squidward accidentally lets SpongeBob eat an exploding pie. To alleviate his guilt, Squidward resolves to make SpongeBob's few remaining hours enjoyable. And that makes Squidward more miserable than ever!

Time/Date:

7:00 AM: Patrick and Squidward two wake up.
7:10 AM: Patrick arrives at the Krusty Krab.
12:20 PM: The Lord realizes the pies were in his factory.
12:25 PM: Patrick said, "You can do the right thing. And there problems out there?"
5:00 PM: Patrick always call on the phone to Mr. Krabs what he said before.
6:00 PM: Bikini Bottom gets destroyed thanks Neptune to the Lord's pie.

Time cards shown: None

Characters Present:

Characters Mentioned:

Gary the Snail
Scooter

Songs: None

Plot

At the Krusty Krab, it's 'Employee Brotherhood day'. Squidward doesn't know this. On 'Employee Brotherhood day', all employees must exchange gifts (they have to make the gifts themselves), and SpongeBob gives Squidward a sweater made out of his eyelashes. When Squidward scoffs at his heartfelt gift, SpongeBob begins to cry copiously, eventually handing Squidward a sweater made from his tears.

Squidward wishes he could buy a gift instead of make one, and sees a group of pirates outside with a sack of pies. He goes outside, but he is told they are in fact, bombs disguised as pies. When Squidward mentions he was going to buy one, the captain lies that they were merely kidding, and Squidward buys a pie for $25. He lies to Mr. Krabs, saying that he made it. Mr. Krabs inspects it, and says he has to eat a bit to see it wasn't horrible. He breaks a tiny bit off the crust and says "This would go great with some milk!" As he gets the milk, he trips over and the bit of the pie explodes and wrecks the back of the Krusty Krab. Squidward and Mr. Krabs are blown far away. When Spongebob investigates, he finds the pie. When they arrive at the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob thanks Squidward for the pie and leaves. Mr. Krabs tells Squidward that the pie would explode when it reached SpongeBob's lower intestine (which is around sunset), so Squidward decides to make SpongeBob's remaining hours fun. After being asked what the funnest things he could do are, SpongeBob presents a list of the funnest things he could do.

Mentioned activites on SpongeBob's Friendship List:

Show his best friend Squidward to everybody in town
Show his best friend Squidward to everybody in town, wearing a salmon suit
Knock-knock jokes
Friends in reverse
Babble like an idiot
Trade faces
Open-heart surgery
Watch the sunset with Squidward

With much anxiety, Squidward remembers that SpongeBob will explode at sunset. At sunset, there is an explosion, but it's actually a bubble that SpongeBob blew (It's in the shape of a bomb and explodes). There is another explosion which knocks the wall down, crushing Squidward. Squidward comes out and finds that SpongeBob is still alive. He says the pie he gave was supposed to explode. SpongeBob doesn't seem to remember, then says 'Oh, this pie!" He takes the explosive pie out of his pocket and says that he was saving it for them to share. He trips over in haste, and the pie/bomb hits Squidward in the face and goes off, demolishing all of Bikini Bottom. The (extremely huge) explosion, here portrayed by actual live action footage of the nuclear test Operation Crossroads, can be seen above the sea.

Quotes

Squidward: I'm gonna make SpongeBob's final hours the best he's ever had. And this time, there's gonna be love! So much, he's gonna drown in it! DROWN IN IT!

Mr. Krabs: Note to self: Watch out for Squidward.

Squidward "Now may I resume my minimum wage duty?"

SpongeBob: "I'm going to introduce my friend Squidward to every one in town wearing a salmon suit."

Squidward: "You're gonna be wearing a salmon suit?"

SpongeBob: (laughs) "Good one,Squidward!"

Operation Crossroads Reference

The Operation Crossroads nuclear test, footage of which is used to represent the explosion near the end of the episode, was conducted at Bikini Atoll. SpongeBob SquarePants is set in the fictional city of Bikini Bottom, which is named after this atoll (possibly indirectly, via the bikini swimsuit). Between Operation Crossroads in 1946 and 1958, Bikini Atoll was the testing ground of more than twenty hydrogen bomb/atomic bomb tests, meaning that Bikini Bottom must have been vapourized or burned down several times in those twelve years. A possible reference to this is made by Mr Krabs who says, "I've seen this before. Eleven times as a matter of fact." Mr. Krabs was in the Navy,(revealed in Shell of a Man, possibly an underwater version of a ground force division) so he should have experienced these events.

Trivia/Goofs

The explosion happened in the middle of the city, not on the cliff they were on.
There is a closed captioning error near the end of the episode. When Squidward says that the pie Spongebob "ate" was a bomb and Spongebob goes, "What pie?" and Squidward says, "The one I left sitting on the counter this morning, that pie!" Any captions read, "The one I left on the counter today."